Proposal -* a study of lifestyles of poor, British underclass* intimate anthropological study of "common people" conducted in situ

Expenses claim -* field trip to supermarket* purchase of rum and coke for research assistant* sundries (ie "fags")

Research aims -* lie in bed at night* watch cockroaches climb walls* dance* drink* screw* have nothing to do* smoke fags* play pool* pretend not to have been to school* not to laugh at poor people

Potential pitfalls -* fitting in* being mistaken for a hated "tourist"* arousing contempt of research assistant* research assistant turning out not to be "common" but poncy, middle-classfashion student on a full grant, replete with standard-issue studentpolitics, whose masculinity is clearly threatened by his girlfriends'father's wealth.